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Re: Why Do You Study Klingon?

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Why Do You Study Klingon?
• Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:40:34 -0500
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ja' ...Paul:

> I chalk that up to "smugness", really.

juqIch.

> ...If it was a true community, I'd expect evolution to take place,  
> but this is being actively railed against.

Do you disagree with the reasoning behind the policy of not making  
our own changes to the Klingon language?  If we want this 'community'  
to be inclusive, ideally we should want anyone to be able to learn to  
speak Klingon using only the published materials (TKD and KGT).   
Encouraging evolution is contrary to that goal.

If we had even a few hundred active speakers participating regularly,  
I'd go along with the point vIghro' made about English changing on  
its own.  But I firmly believe we are too few to have the luxury of  
letting natural forces work; the statistical sample size is  
insufficient, and individuals' effects are too great.  We can't  
afford anything that would result in dialects undocumented by the  
reference books.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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